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“The 1st sale of the year got off to a good start with prices for almost all types of teas appreciating in value."
Ceylon tea prices gained steeply in 2022, after the rupee fell.
Policy mismanagement and bad weather continue to eat into dollar crop
Indians came as cheap labours under British Colonial rulers
Amaraweera promotes high-density tea cultivation system and use of new technology to increase yields.
ECONOMYNEXT - The Russian government is allowing any product with 50 percent of Sri Lankan grown tea to be labelled as �...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 150-year-old plantations industry model, where resident workers are paid daily w...
ECONOMYNEXT – Talks between Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies and estate labour unions to raise w...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Regional Plantation Companies are pushing for a new outgrower model, as a deadline on wage neg...
ECONOMYNEXT - An ex-plantations chief in Sri Lanka has challenged the gender norms and operational practices the industr...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export volumes and earnings fell in August 2018 from a year ago, largely owi...
ECONOMYNEXT – The slump in Sri Lankan tea prices continued in August this year with the monthly auction average p...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated a US$100 million loan to Sri Lanka to modernise the ...
Sri Lanka's state plantations became a key tool of political patronage, where procurement contracts, jobs and parcels of...
Sri Lanka's tea producers are losing out, and innovation and marketing have been stifled due to a restrictive auction sy...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.5018 | 332.3603 |
| UK Pound | 440.0661 | 440.9424 |
| Euro | 367.7137 | 368.4879 |
| Yen | 2.0793 | 2.0805 |
| Aus Dollar | 226.4670 | 227.4342 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5357 | 3.5474 |
| Korean Won | 0.2494 | 0.2492 |
| Oman Rial | 863.5962 | 863.2287 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5939 | 88.5586 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.5259 | 90.4874 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,293.72 | -1.13% |
| CSE All Share | 22,024.18 | -0.60% |
| Turnover Rs | 3232.70 million | 2975.05 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
ECONOMYNEXT – The creation of financial reserves to help Sri Lankan regional plantations companies (RPCs) ride ou...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Talawakelle Tea Estates June 2018 quarter was virtually flat at 46 million rupee...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is to reimburse 19 tea exporters half their international promotional cos...
Sri Lanka is facing the risk of a complete ban on tea exports to Japan due to the use of alternative weedicides to glyph...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hatton Plantations PLC plans to build more tea factories as it seeks to take adv...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group has said its tea extracts business has found the going slow owing ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices fell at this week’s Colombo auction with the cumulative auction averag...
Sri Lanka's regional plantations companies - commercial farms growing tea, rubber and oil palm - should start wage negot...
Sri Lanka's torrential rains are expected to disrupt tea supplies and reduce volume coming to forthcoming auctions, thou...
ECONOMYNEXT – Prices of several grades of Sri Lankan tea rose sharly at this week’s one-day auction in Col...
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